Monthly Archives: December 2010

New Dogfather and Catfather

Just cleaning up the scene files for the Dogfather Catfather piece; this a state of play test render.  

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Another hare

A larger A4  Drawing of a bunny… I’m not promising anything, but I still think a re-visioning of the Matrix Dojo sequence with bunnies is a great idea…

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Mocap on biped in 3D studio max

The first full test day with the new motion tracking suite. Becky put on the suit and let us capture some moves.

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Hare number 3

Smaller ears, fatter belly, a less substantial carrot and I forgot to add whiskers to this one, if there is such a thing as carrot beer this one has been drinking far too much of it…

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Hare number 2

More ears, smokin a carrot, enhanced whiskers altogether a more slouchy fieldwise Hare…

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Hare Character design or is it just a rabbit

The eternal question, I think hares are bigger and tend to boxing in spring, I wonder if they like carrots too?

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Cat character design

Big hind paws and a cat nip tee shirt.

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Setting up the 12 camera motion capure rig.

Those are 12 Optitrack FLEX:V100R2 Cameras and it took about 30 minutes to mount and cable all twelve of them, after this the lights go out so we can align and calibrate them. This was the second time we had … Continue reading

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The Father of All Cats gets spots

The Cat Father has been re-textured to help him stand out a little, the problem with stripy characters on stripy back grounds is that they are very well camouflaged.  

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Jelly walking

Well more sort of perambulating, I was seeing if I could make a character walk using just morph targets [blend shapes] I’m OK with this as a first attempt but I’m sure I can do way better.

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